Meanwhile, on the other side, down below the building, a fellow with an abnormally swollen head was limping away.
He looked back toward the roof from time to time.
‘Damn, what kind of ability is this? Why didn’t I notice even the slightest sign of erosion? Has she been hiding her strength all along?’
It was Justice.
He had adopted the strategy of a lizard cutting off its own tail and had luckily managed to escape this far.
To prevent his highly recognizable goat head from being exposed, he used Little Qian’s transformation ability.
However, changing one’s face could only alter their features; it was difficult to change the size of one’s head.
Thus, Justice had decisively snapped off his two horns, barely managing to achieve a reasonable head shape.
Still, it looked as if he had grown up drinking toxic milk powder; his head was startlingly large.
He walked into the alley with a hurried expression and quickly passed through it, arriving at the bustling street.
Being swept along by the flow of people gave him a sense of peace.
This group of humans, whom he despised, was now providing him with sanctuary.
Even the lights that usually disgusted him no longer seemed so piercing.
The feeling of escaping certain death was as wonderful as ever.
Just like the night he escaped the laboratory.
However, before he could even let out a laugh, the scene before him transformed into pitch-black darkness in the blink of an eye.
He had returned to the other end of the alley.
It was as if the process of escaping just now had never happened.
That terrible and familiar sensation instantly filled Justice with insurmountable fear.
He lost all will to resist and collapsed onto the ground.
At the same time, the darkness in front of him surged twice, and a figure stepped out.
She shared 70% or 80% of Tang Nai’s features; it was Tang Yin, who had once appeared in Ye Wanqing’s Dream World.
“I thought you were a precious subject, but I didn’t expect you to be so pathetic.”
Hearing this merciless belittlement, Justice did not argue.
It wasn’t so much that he couldn’t refute her, but rather that he didn’t have the courage to confront Tang Yin.
He knew better than anyone just how terrifying the person before him was.
In his memory, the only one who had ever walked away from this woman completely unscathed was that childish, red-haired brat.
“No matter. I didn’t expect much from you anyway. Being able to verify the animal-incarnation Strange Person is a value enough for you to be proud of. Now, return everything you possess to me.”
As Justice watched Tang Yin’s fair five fingers expand in his field of vision, the man who controlled the power of fear could not control the terror in his own heart.
He couldn’t even make a sound, falling into a silent, deathly stillness.
The moment Justice’s body withered away, a portion of the skin on the goat head quietly peeled off.
It then began to crawl toward the building, writhing like a snake.
***
“Long time no see, my loathsome sister.”
“Heh, so you’re still in the mood to joke?”
Dressed in her maid outfit, Tang Mo had lost the timidity she showed when facing Su Ya.
Perhaps it was because being by Tang Nai’s side made her feel subconsciously at ease.
But right now, she cared more about what the other person had said.
“Since neither crying nor laughing can change the ending, why wouldn’t I choose the easier way? Besides, I never said that thing would definitely happen… I’ve already found a Doctor.”
“A Doctor? I can’t think of anyone who can resolve this.”
Tang Mo’s face darkened.
When speaking of a Doctor, the first person she thought of was Tang Yin, who had become obsessed with researching Magic Power.
But there was no way that woman could handle Tang Nai’s current situation.
“You’ve seen her. You even planned to attack her. See, I told you that you’d suffer for it.”
Watched by Tang Nai’s half-smiling gaze, Tang Mo could not feel the shame of being mocked.
“Why didn’t you say so earlier? Making me waste so much energy for such a stupid reason.”
“There is no point in having one more person worry. I’d rather let you continue being naive.”
Tang Mo grabbed Tang Nai’s shoulders and shook her violently.
“Does this look like the same thing to you?”
To surpass Tang Nai even once, Tang Mo had spent more than ten years focused solely on that goal.
She had been excited and expectant, yet she never realized she was merely competing with someone who had already entered the twilight of her life.
This woman kept saying she valued their blood bond, and that even after everything that happened, she still saw Tang Mo as a sister—yet she kept the most important thing hidden.
Wasn’t that ridiculous?
Tang Nai shook her head, “Don’t worry, everything is under control.”
“I don’t believe a word of it!”
Tang Mo desperately wanted to slap this woman to make her say something sensible.
But looking at the face that had already been slapped swollen by Su Ya, she felt a sudden, inexplicable pang of heartache.
“You want to hit me, don’t you? Go ahead and hit me. This body isn’t mine anyway.”
“As expected of you. You’ve even calculated this clearly, playing us all like fools,” Tang Mo whispered.
Just then, she felt something lightly touch her foot.
Immediately following that, a fragment of an unfamiliar memory entered her mind.
Little Qian’s power had dissipated, but it had returned with its memories, including everything Justice had seen just now.
“Tang Yin is here too. Guess what she’ll do if she finds out?”
“I suspect she’s known all along,” Tang Nai replied calmly.
Knowing Tang Yin was nearby did not seem to surprise her.
In fact, the moment she saw Justice’s appearance, she understood that he was another one of Tang Yin’s creations.
“Then why isn’t she doing anything? Her ability should be useful, right?”
“I already told you—she doesn’t care about those things. Don’t you understand? The only thing she cares about is seeing the scene at the very end of authority and Magic Power.”
At that moment, the voice of the person they were discussing perfectly interjected into the conversation.
“Don’t make it sound so harsh. What I clearly care about is the moment you reach that end. No one other than you will do.”
The uninvited guest leaned against the doorframe, expressing her disagreement with a serious expression.
She hadn’t ignored Little Qian’s existence and had followed it all the way here, just in time to join the conversation between the two.
“For that reason, I have been trying to imitate you, walking a path similar to yours. But I still don’t understand why the results are so vastly different. Does it really have to be a Magical Girl?”
Tang Nai listened silently to Tang Yin’s words.
Her expression seemed no different from before, but upon closer inspection, one could see that her usually smiling lips had dropped at some point.
She was in a very bad mood.
This was an extremely rare occurrence, as most of her emotions had long since ceased to surface.
“I have always tried to make you believe that you are walking a path toward the realm of the gods. You, who already possess a partial Divinity, should know this better than I. Why do you always insist on refusing?”
“Heh, this is exactly why you’ve always disgusted me.”